Bron Hocking
Psychologist, Longreach Hospital
"Rural settings allow you to work in close proximity with some great professionals and people, who are always only five minutes away".
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Location: 1,141km north west of Brisbane, 562km south west of Townsville, 126km north east of Longreach, 67km north of Barcaldine
Aramac is a country town located in Central West Queensland. Settled in the 1850s, the town still serves its original purpose of supporting the surrounding sheep and cattle pastoralists and is described as 'an oasis in the dry of the Central West'. In the main street of Aramac stands the White Bull replica which tells the story of the most historically significant cattle ‘duffing’ case ever recorded in Australia. Aramac offers a quiet and relaxed outback lifestyle.
Aramac Primary Health Care Centre provides services including medical clinic services visiting from Barcaldine once a week, rural doctor placement from Redcliffe/Caboolture for one week every six weeks and private optometrist visits. The nursing staff are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week for accident and emergency services.
Allied health services available are social work and speech pathology.
Visiting Community Health services include child health, mobile women's health, mental health team, child immunisation clinic, breast care nurse and alcohol, tobacco and drugs services.
Despite Aramac’s subtropical climate of warm, dry winter days and as little as 400 millimetres of rain falling during the summer months, no water restrictions are in place due to Aramac’s proximity to the Great Artesian Basin and Aramac Creek. The Great Artisan Basin provides the town with plenty of bore water.
Aramac’s streets are particularly wide. Town folklore says that a local had been impressed by Melbourne’s wide streets and had resolved to implement the design in Aramac.
Gray Rock is linked closely with the pioneering herdsmen and their families of the area. Grey Rock was the location of the Wayside Inn, a respite for weary travellers heading to Clermont. On the west side are engravings from the guests of the inn and on the eastern side of the rock can be found some Aboriginal rock art.
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